Foreplays is a column that explores under-known short films by renowned directors. Lynn Ramsay's Gasman (1998) is free to watch below.Lynne Ramsay’s Gasman is a film about family, and a film made with family—the director’s own brother and niece play, respectively, the central father and daughter in the story. Two siblings, Lynne (Lynne Ramsay Jr.) and Steve (Martin Anderson), go to a Christmas party with their father (James Ramsay), while the mother (Denise Flannagan) remains at home. They briefly meet with a woman (Jackie Quinn) and her two kids (Lisa Taylor, Robert McEwan). The woman leaves, but her children join the party. Gasman is the story both of a perfectly banal evening, and of an exceptional event that serves to fracture the family unit, messing up all its usual roles, and dissolving the very idea of what is familiar. Ramsay achieves this by never losing sight either of the everyday,...
- 6/30/2017
- MUBI
A New York mother, her two sons and her boyfriend were all flying on a private plane on Monday when air traffic control lost contact with them near the Bermuda Triangle.
Search and rescue teams were unable to locate any survivors.
Rescue efforts were suspended on Thursday for the Mu-2B aircraft carrying New York entrepreneur and designer Jennifer Blumin, 40, and her two sons, Theodore, 3, and Phineas, 4. Their pilot was Blumin’s boyfriend, Nathan Ulrich, 52, founder of the scooter company, Xootr.
The group departed from a vacation in Puerto Rico around 11 a.m. on Monday and were headed to Titusville,...
Search and rescue teams were unable to locate any survivors.
Rescue efforts were suspended on Thursday for the Mu-2B aircraft carrying New York entrepreneur and designer Jennifer Blumin, 40, and her two sons, Theodore, 3, and Phineas, 4. Their pilot was Blumin’s boyfriend, Nathan Ulrich, 52, founder of the scooter company, Xootr.
The group departed from a vacation in Puerto Rico around 11 a.m. on Monday and were headed to Titusville,...
- 5/19/2017
- by Rose Minutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
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